February 5 Frank Pasquale Lecture on Search as Speech

You are cordially invited to a special Information Society Project and Knight Law and Media Program lunch speaker series featuring Frank Pasquale discussing “Search as Speech: Does the First Amendment Limit Regulation of Google?” on Friday, February 5 at noon in Room 128 of Yale Law School.

Cyberscholar Working Group Scheduled for February 3 at MIT

The next Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will take place Wednesday, February 3, 2010 from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm in Room E14-633 (6th floor), MIT Campus, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA.  Yale ISP Fellow Chris Wong will be a featured scholar presenting his work “Lost in Translation: The Open Patent Project.”
The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group [...]

Julie Cohen Lecture January 29

You are cordially invited to the first Information Society Project speaker series event of the new semester, scheduled for Friday, January 29 at noon in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (location to be confirmed the week of the lecture).  This event is co-sponsored by the Yale University Library and is part of the library’s [...]

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group December 2

Please join us for the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group scheduled for December 2, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 pm at Harvard.  The event will take place in Conference Room 202 of the Berkman Center at 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi if you plan to attend.  Refreshments provided.   The following [...]

December 1 Lecture on Gene Patents by ACLU Attorney Chris Hansen

The December 1 Yale ISP Speaker Series, co-sponsored with the Yale Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society, will feature ACLU lawyer Chris Hansen discussing “Gene Patents: Patently Unconstitutional?”  Chris Hansen is the lead attorney in Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office.  The case addresses the patenting of the [...]

Talk by EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann November 17

The November 17  ISP Speaker Series will feature Fred Von Lohmann, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s senior staff attorney specializing in intellectual property matters.  The name of his talk is “Owners of Copies v. Copyright Owners: Understanding Copyright’s Exhaustion Doctrine.”
The Ninth Circuit is poised to rule on three appeals that bring up the same issue: can [...]

Save the Date: February 12-13, 2010

A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference
Please save the date for the Fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on February 12-13, 2010.
Access to knowledge (A2K) is about designing intellectual property laws, telecommunication policies, and technical architectures that encourage broader participation in cultural, civic, and educational affairs; [...]

Gigi Sohn Talk on October 27

The October 27 ISP Speaker Series will feature Gigi Sohn discussing “Content and its Discontents: What Net Neutrality Does and Doesn’t Mean for Copyright.”  The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided.
Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney and the founder of Public [...]

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Event

Please join us on November 3, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for a special session of the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group.  The event will be held in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, immediately across York Street from Yale Law School.
This event will feature a “Digital Democracy Debate” with Matthew Hindman, author of The [...]

Yale ISP at Digital Labor Conference

The Yale ISP will participate in the upcoming conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory: a Conference on Digital Labor” scheduled for November 12-14 at Eugene Lang College, the New School in New York City.  The Information Society Project is one of the co-presenters of the conference and eight ISP fellows will [...]

Mark Pittman to Speak about Freedom of Information

You are cordially invited to join us Tuesday, October 13, to hear Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News speaking about “Busting the American Casino: How Freedom of Information Can Tame the Federal Reserve.”  The event will take place in Room 121 of Yale Law School at 4:10 p.m. Refreshments will be served.  Pittman will speak [...]

Jimmy Wales talk: this Wednesday at 6pm

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder and de facto leader of Wikipedia, is coming to speak at Yale on October 7 at 6pm. The talk will take place at SSS 114, which is at the corner of Grove and Prospect St in New Haven. The ISP is pleased to sponsor this talk with the Yale Students for [...]

Yale ISP Accepting Applications for 2010-2011 Fellowships

The Yale Information Society Project is now accepting applications for 2010-2011 ISP postdoctoral fellowships at Yale Law School.
The Yale ISP resident fellowship is designed for recent graduates of law or Ph.D. programs who are interested in careers in teaching and public service in any of the following areas: law and innovation, media studies, Internet and [...]

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  • A2K4 Update

    Thanks to all the sponsors, partners, volunteers, and participants who made A2K4 such an enormous success!

    Video is now online for all plenary panels. Workshops will follow soon, as well as short video interviews.

    To access videos, summaries, and additional resources, please visit the blog posts for each panel, indexed at:

    http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/a2k4main/

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